We provide ISO 27001, GDPR and Cyber Security consultancyto businesses across the East Midlands. How can we help you?
We've helped businesses across the East Midlands reduce their risk.How can we help you?
We provide training and consultancy support to businesses wanting to improve their information security.
Considered the “Gold Standard” in information security, we support businesses in achieving the ISO 27001:2013 standard.
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We help businesses to understand and navigate the changes required by this largely misunderstood legislation.
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From consultancy to training, we support to businesses achieve the UK Government’s Cyber Essentials scheme.
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Our outstanding staff awareness training, in-person or online, reduces the potential for cyber security incidents.
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Finding Andy to help us with our quest for ISO accreditation was a godsend. He was easy to work with, had the knack of making the 'very technical' understandable and handled it all in good humour. We’d highly recommend him.
You might think an IT security expert could verge on the robotic. Andy is an incredibly nice guy and brings the human touch through his support and advice. We would recommend him unreservedly to everyone.
In the run up to the GDPR deadline, we were looking for support to help make sure that we were doing the right things, and to uncover anything we were missing. We came across ADL Consulting through their website. From the start, it was clear that Andy really knew his stuff, and perhaps most helpfully, wasn't obnoxious about it! He was helpful, understanding, non-judgemental and he took the time to understand our business, rather than just throw a "solution" at us. As a result, we were able to quickly identify the gaps in our preparations, adjust some of the things we'd done already, and have confidence in the rest. Andy did an awesome job with our Privacy Policy and introduced some additional policies, crafted to our business requirements, that provide us with extra protection should the unthinkable happen. We have no reservations about recommending Andy to other businesses looking for help with the GDPR requirements or any associated cyber security related work.
CFE achieved ISO 27001 in July 2018. As the Project Manager, Andy was an invaluable resource to me in both the planning and delivery of the requirements of this tough standard. His ability to interpret technical implementation issues to langauge that "normal people" understand is a massive help, and he delivers with a confidence inspiring calmness and humour. He undertook our risk assessment, developed and reworked a large number of our information security related policies, and crafted our Information Security Management System to fit us perfectly. The result - an easy to maintain, efficient and helpful system that has helped us understand, reduce and manage our information security-related risk and meet the ISO 27001 requirements. We have since passed our first surveillance audit with no issues.
Sarah TrivediSarah Trivedi, Director of Corporate Services
Andy spoke at our CPD event in October 2018 - GDPR was one the hot topics earlier this year and I was interested in listening to him discuss GDPR 6 months on. I thought it would just be a regular informative talk, however it was not only informative, it was interesting and he managed to engage with every single person in the room! – He was by far my favourite speaker of the day and I really hope to attend another one of his talks very soon!! He makes GDPR extremely fun and interesting!
Sujay PatelSujay Patel, F A Simms & Partners Limited